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Like too much else in the increasingly divided house that is the United States, Supreme Court confirmation hearings are bitterly divided along partisan lines. But, for all the hypocritical politicking, there’s a notable difference when it’s a Democrat rather than a Republican nominee. When Republicans nominate a candidate,
Simon Court ACT Environment and Climate Change spokesperson The Government’s plan to force retailers in to using biofuels will pump up the price of fuel and is pointless when the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) can help us meet our targets anyway. MBIE have warned the Government that their mandate
New Conservative Helen Houghton BTchLn Co-leader New Conservative Education Spokeswoman New Conservative is very concerned that this government is about to unleash an over complicated thoughtless reaction to what is a simple problem to solve. Additional, ‘new assessment tools for measuring kids’ abilities? Exactly what is the Labour government’
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
My, what a difference a year and a war make. According to the media-political narrative, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is the hero of the age. The new Churchill. The leader of “the cause of all free people”. Which is a very different tune than they were singing, less than
Ivy Schmidt brownstone.org Ivy Schmidt is an educational leader who savours life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. I remember when I was five years old. My cat, Grey Feathers, had been missing for almost two days. I looked out the window to see our backyard covered in a
As recently reported on the BFD, sending squads of keyboard heroes and internet warriors to an actual battlefront has worked out about exactly as you’d expect. To their complete shock, the memelords trying to earn internet points by “volunteering for Ukraine” are finding that in a real war, people
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Rod There is a growing number of us who want not only this corrupt government gone but also all of the incumbent MPs. We want them gone as well because, not only did they fail to oppose the government’s increasingly authoritarian actions that stomped all over voters’ rights and
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Andrea Vance, Senior Journalist at Stuff has penned an opinion piece entitled “The culture of nastiness: insults have replaced arguments in political debate“. Andrea suggests that this needs to change and says, quite rightly, that being rude does not help: In my small way, I am breaking the cycle. Being
Capitalist Information Opinion There has been a lot of discussion about the recent opinion polls. There has been lots of pontificating about the reasons for the collapse in support for the Labour Government. So-called political experts have mused as to whether it can be turned around. I think they
If there was an industry that we needed not to suffer as a result of the pandemic, that would be the construction industry. After the Kiwibuild debacle, rising house prices and extremely high demand, the government should have tried to protect those that are trying to tackle these issues. A
